The Dan Bongino Show - Conmen, Lib, Fake MAGA, or All Of The Above? (Ep. 2588)

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You guys and ladies ever see that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio? Catch me if you can. Now, I'm using the dreaded air quotes here, but it's supposedly a true story. You know, I hate the air quotes, but in this case, it's apropos. Many of you've seen the movie, the whole point.

of the movie is it's a movie that's supposedly a true story about a real guy who did exist, a guy named Frank, who was a con man. And the movie is based on his autobiographical telling of his life as a con man. Why is that relevant today? Because I have just a simple question for you to start the show. Con men, Dumers, Folex MAGA, liberals, commies, media people. What's the difference. That's a trick question. There is no difference. They're all conmen who use the exact same technique, something I've been explaining to you since I've been back on the air the past six months. And prior to that, when I had the radio and TV and podcast show before, the scam they do every time, are you ready? Write this down, con men, libs, media people, is they will take a piece

of information that may be factually accurate. And, Pile onto it, a house of lies. And every single time you call them, they go back to the initial piece of information, but never talk about the House of Lies. It's like, you tell them you were in the state of Nebraska six months ago, and a bank was robbed in the state of Nebraska. They will take that piece of information you were in Nebraska. Tell a whole story about how you robbed it,

despite zero evidence you actually robbed a bank or a bank was robbed at all. They do this all the time. unbelievably, suckers, not you, but suckers fall for this stuff. I'll show you what I mean coming up in the beginning. And I always bring receipts. I've told you over and over, liberal media lunatics are conmen and liars. We caught one. Again, all we had to do was send one letter and ask them to back up what they said.

An instantaneous correction. It's almost like they're lying to you on purpose. By the way, the enormous launch of the Bonji, Report AM, National Radio Show is coming up September 21st. Receipts and coming on the enormity of it. It's hundreds of stations, hundreds. So we are getting a station finder up at Bongino.com. We are waiting because there's all stations coming in.

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Thank you, Helix. Thank you, fellas. Let's get going. So Con men, Doomers, Folex, MAGA, liberals, commie, socialist, Islam fanatics, and liberal media lunatics. What's the difference? Trick question, there's no difference. They're all liars and con men.

Now, I said to you in the open, you see that movie? Catch me if you can. You know, it's a story about Frank was named. I'm acknowledging or something. And he tells this story about how he conned people into being a doctor, how he conned them into being an airline pilot and stuff. The kicker about the air quotes true story, I asked a chat GPT for you. And I'd seen this getting kicked around X yesterday.

That's where the whole kind of genesis of this came from. The story is actually not that factually accurate. In fact, they know, catch me if you can, has one of the more fascinating true story problems in Hollywood. There is substantial evidence that Frank Abagnalli Jr. fabricated or greatly exaggerated, much of the story that the movie was based on, dude, this is unbelievable. A guy writing a story about being a con man may have exaggerated the story about being a con man and conned a lot of people into believing the story about being a conman.

That's incredible. That's amazing. It's almost like people who have a history of defamation suits, claiming all kinds of things. I can't wait for disclosure in court. and then when they're served the subpoena, they run for the hills. It's almost like I thought you said you were looking forward to you. I thought you said that. I thought you said that.

It's almost like con men do con men stuff and suckers fall for it. Just like they fall for the rich don't pay their fair share. The government's going to cure your health care problems despite never curing a single problem in human history. Con men take advantage of suckers who like barking, seals just suck it all up because they're almost incapable or don't want to process actual evidence in the real world. Folks, they use the same stunt every time. Whether it's people throwing out ridiculous conspiracies that space aliens or Jason

Vorhees were involved in a murder plot, whether they're doing this or not. What they'll do is they'll take a piece of information that may be factually accurate. I was in Nebraska on November 30th. You could have been there for a kid's birthday party. No one's disputing that that's an accurate piece of information. And they build a story on top of it. It is the story you have to be skeptical of. Well, you must have robbed that bank.

There's no evidence I robbed the bank. I have 30 people saying I was at the kid's birthday party. You're not disputing you were in Nebraska though. And suckers ignore the house on top and focus on the piece of information that is irrelevant to the premise that the bank was robbed by you. Folks, that is the hallmark. I'm really sorry of a sucker and a stupid person. They have no ability to process additional inputs and additional pieces of information.

The house of lies built on top of the fact, they can't process the new stuff because they're so in love with the con man and their charisma that they just put aside reason and will fall for anything. That is what con men do. They are incredibly charismatic. They have, you know, they have these, they really do have good social IQs in many cases and they can convince people of almost anything. You see this all the time.

Take a piece of information and turn it into this fairy tale comic book where none of it's accurate. You know, like Frank Abagnale, who apparently in the story, you know, some of it's accurate. Like he did apparently sneak on a plane once or something like that. But the movie about him like being a pie. and things like it appears like a lot of that was exaggerated. No one disputes the initial story. The elaboration portion and the new inputs in the movie are just apparently not that accurate. I have warned you about con men, media people forever.

I told you ladies and gentlemen, they make stuff up. I hate making the show about me, but this is just the gem. Because even the correction is wrong. I pointed out this crazy story by just a nonsense garbage out. folks, you know like the supermarkets when we were back in the 80s? That'll come up later too, the 80s. I hate people trash in the 80s. That'll come up in, you know where I'm going with that.

We are not getting off the show today without that. Remember in the 80s you'd walk in the supermarket line? You'd be checking out. And right there they had the rack. And it was a national, like the rack for the tabloids. And it would say, national acquirer, the globe. You know, I was impregnated by a space alien. This is raw story.

I told you these people just make stuff up. So they had put in a story last week about Cash Patel easing a ban on bestiality and prostitution for FBI recruits. It's the stupidest story. The story is such ridiculous. They take a little piece of information that sexual abuse victims who were abuse victims, who were applying to be FBI personnel taking a polygraph, were failing because some of this stuff, this horrible stuff, happened to them. So the polygrapers had asked, hey, listen, there's still a ban on this stuff, but I don't think it should be a blanket thing in a polygraph because the victims are getting tossed out.

We can't pass them because it's, you know, it's screwing up the polygraph. There was no easing of a bit. They just made it up. But the kicker is they had said at the end of the piece because they're just wires, con men, they had said that, and Dan Bongino failed the background check. you see it right there so you know i'm not going to let that happen anymore folks i used to let a lot of this stuff go but hands off these days i'm just tired of the BS i had my lawyer send the letter and i was dead serious i'm going to sue the hell out of them because it's just made up here's the

correction daniel hampton daniel who should be embarrassed i mean i this guy's parents did the parents changed their last name to avoid being associated with this idiot correction an earlier version of this article stated that now former deputy director Dan Bonino was hired despite a failed background check. Quote, Bongino did not fail a background check. The correction's not even correct though, because that may note, it reflects that he was hired despite reportedly not taking a standard background check. So my lawyer's going to follow up again because that's not true either.

Folks, Daniel Hampton, Raw Story, Dumer's, Folex MAGA, liberal media. It's look at this moron again. Why do they always look like this? they just make stuff up. If you are not a con man and everything like Daniel Hampton is telling people are sure, then why correct it? Why did you correct it the minute my lawyer got involved

and you knew you'd be deposed? Because you know under oath, you'd have to say, ah, we just made that up. Just like the con man out there now, on X every day with a fantastic new theory about Joey bag of donuts, robbed this bank. And there's no evidence to that at all.

I've been sued, but I can't wait for the disclosure. Really? Why are you ducking subpoenas then and avoiding the courtroom trying to get the case thrown out? I thought you were so proud of your information that you can't wait to talk about it on the road. Remember, the best defense against the defamation case, but I know well is the truth. So if you're telling the truth and you're not a con man, then you should relish the opportunity. But you don't.

You're trying to duck it. Why issue the correction, Dan? Because you know you made it up. You're going to wind up issuing another one too. Because none of that is true. I did not fail a background check. I took a background check, filled out lengthy forms, had an interview as the future deputy director,

with a GS-13 FBI agent who was at my house doing what, conducting a background check. These people are con men. You want to see another con man? Folks, if there's anyone running, anyone in this cycle on the Democrat side who's a con man, it's Talafriko in Texas. You want to see a con man?

I want you to watch one of the most unintentionally hilarious videos I've seen in this cycle. Here is Talafrico. He is the Democrat nominee for the United States. Senate in hilariously Texas where this guy could not be more ill-suited to run for office. As a vegan, I don't like meat. I think there's six-genters guy in Texas. He's not running in Illinois. Here he, I don't like starting the show with funny stuff.

I like to hit Harvard information. But watching these media people fold as they make stuff up and watching a bunch of conman Democrats, here he is Talafrico walking into a cracker barrel. You guys eating in a cracker barrel? Pretty awesome, right? Pretty good. I like me some cracker barrel, too. Here he is walking into a cracker barrel,

depending, trying to be like one of you guys. He's got a jacket on, by the way, in a cracker bottle. You could take the jacket off, bro. He's walking in there like he's freaking Indiana Jones on an archaeological... You did it. I didn't think they'd come through. Here he is.

Here's Talafrico Jones. I said to the guys, I said, man, you got to get like some AI. There he is. Talafrico with his Indiana Jones machete. He sees a cracker bow. Yes, I made it. I made it. They're going to jump it up into that.

That is brilliant. That is, this team is a minute. You guys are really awesome with the AI. I gave them like five minutes to put that together. Here's the video. Watch Talafriko Jones in the cracker barrel. Like this is like an archaeological expedition. Oh, look.

There's a menu. It's funny. Oh my gosh. Let me try. I'm going to give you some of the food too. Oh, I'm going to laugh a little bit. Look at this. They've got games at the table too.

Jump this. Jump this. Well, let me shake hands. Look, look. Let's make sure we get like a diverse group of people in there, too. Folks, the dude looks like he's like in Egypt, trying to unearth like a pharaoh's rain relic from like generations ago. Dude, look at the look at this guy.

I'm not telling you who to vote for it. You do what you want. I'm just, money! Tear up the chat again. By the way, tear up the chat with the monies in the chat. Yesterday, I watched, I never watched clips of me. Why would I watch clips of me like I did it? But, you know, we love Maga Kitty.

She's always throwing out clips and clips our stuff, which is really cool. Maga Kitty on X. She's in the chat sometimes. Put out the segment yesterday, we did in the beginning of the show where we were rolling about the stupid Netflix documentary about the media people who took a plane flight back from Turkey and landed and bravely took photographs of themselves landing on the plane. I watched the clip where they had the, this on the screen, I'm telling you, man, only the Bongino Army can do that.

I can only post once. Here, I'm going to post now. I'll post, post, post. That's only me one time. I can only do it once. This is what tens of thousands of people in a live chat at 10 a.m. in the morning at each time, only you. There's no one else who can do that at this time in the morning.

No one. That's you. Take a bow. I watched my own clip yesterday. Even Paula was laughing. Tala freco. A guy walks in a cracker barrel like he, like he's like, oh, Look at here.

There's this thing, Justin. It's laminated and plastic. What is it? Yeah, it's called a menu, bro. A menu. I don't even need a menu in crack or barrel. It's really easy. Oh, look at this.

Everybody's smile and laugh. You can take your jacket off too. I can spot a con man, I'm telling you, from a mile away. And they're everywhere. They're everywhere. They're all over X. I see it all day. People post a dine.

And it's all this faux bravado and bravery. And then the minute you put them on the spot, they collapse. They have no answers for anything because they're totally full of crap. They take a piece of information and write a whole comic book around it. And none of it's true. I want you to watch this. I want you to watch how notice how these con men they do this often. They'll, again, turn this information and write a whole story around it.

And when you ask them about the story, they only go back to the. initial piece of information. It's how they take advantage of a lot of suckers and a lot of people who are looking for people to blame. You're seeing it, I'm sorry, in this Lindsay Clancy case. A viewer of mine, I'm not going to say who. I still love you, but has my email. Email me yesterday. Hey, how about a bit of grace for Lindsay Clancy? I'm not mad at you. You're entitled to your opinion. This show is not a dictatorship. I don't have any grace and I will not. I'm really sorry. I read your email.

I totally completely disagree. I respect your opinion on it, but I totally completely disagree. If we as a society cannot collectively agree that murdering your three children, that a mental health issue, medications or other things are not a reason to murder your kids. If we can't agree on that, we're never going to have a stable functioning republic again. Because where does this end? Here, I want to show you what I mean, because I always bring receipts. Here's a different case.

This is a case of a man sexually abusing kids. It's a horrible case. But I'll show you at the end of this clip, the guy gets something like 400 years in jail, okay? Well deserved. I have no sympathy for him either, obviously, just like I have no sympathy for the Clancy lady. Still going on, but I don't know what they're doing. deliberating about. The facts are not in dispute. The same allegations were made.

Health problems, medical conditions. This guy got 400 years. What's the difference? Are we going to start excusing this away next? What happens as you start to degrade your standards? Well, murder's okay if we're this, Medicaid. And then you down. Well, maybe they took an aspirin is next. No, no. That's not it. We're not degrading our standards. Don't murder your kids. Don't murder your kids. sexually abused kids. Is this hard? Is this hard? No, it's not. Thank you. You'll probably say no to say no to something. But no, it's not. Here, I want you to play this local news clip about this guy, what's his name, Richard Trossack. This guy got 400 years. Check this out. More than 400 year sentence for a former Chesterfield teacher convicted on child sex abuse charges,

Richard Troshak admitted to taking explicit videos and pictures of nude boys under the age of 13. Court documents say some of the images were taken in public and school bathrooms. Troshack was sentenced to 565 years in prison with 110 of those years suspended. Another Chastafil teacher who used to work with Troshack was sentenced to 30 years in prison on similar charges after also pleading guilty. Folks, a different case, correct? But this guy got 400 years. For an abhorrent crime, can we all agree? Now, pull up that local, what is it, WRIC?

Here's a local news outlet reporting on what his lawyers had stated, that apparently he had some medical health issue earlier as a child, ABC 8 News, that during the sentencing, Trotsack's attorney, argued that his medical condition should be taken into account. As a child, he was diagnosed with hyper-mobile Ehlers Download Syndrome, which is a tissue disorder. According to his attorneys, Troshak suffers from chronic pain. He was using a walker in court, but this ultimately did not sway Johnson

and the guy got 400 years. Folks, my issue with the case is, are we a country of standards or not? I'm sorry, but you're being taken advantage of if you're going to, going to believe that, you know what, because she was, I don't dispute, maybe she wasn't postpartum depression. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't, the problem is you could think of a thousand different reasons built on, see where I'm going with this? A comic book story built on top of a house where the reasons don't change the underlying facts. She killed her three kids. You can give a thousand reasons. Was having a bad day. There was a drug interaction. Thousands of people are having a

day. Millions of people. Around the globe, billions of people are having a bad day. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are poor and their kids are having, their kids are being bullied at school and they're not murdering their kids. Folks, there has to be a point where we say to ourselves, no, that is unacceptable. This Clancy case is really, but, because bother me, because there's so many conmen online inventing a thousand different comic books over the underlying facts, and in this case, ignoring the underlying fact, when they do the opposite in other cases.

There's a sucker born every day, and I got your email, and I, again, you're entitled to your opinion. I see even in the chat this light some people up. I'm entitled to mine, too. And no, this is totally unacceptable, and the verdict should be guilty. And they should have been, they should have deliberated for 10 minutes. and this is a case where unless some underlying fact changes

and these children are, you know, risen from the dead which is not going to happen, they were murdered. Nothing's going to change my mind because there's no new story to write around it. The facts are already known. Folks, the biggest problem with suckers in both the political space and elsewhere, falling for liberal media fairy tales and elsewhere,

is these problems that are instilled upon them, don't stay local. They don't stay local. You can screw up and fall for Mom Dani in New York and all this other stuff and believe socialism's great and vote for it locally. The problem with this stuff

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667 chapter. Thank you, chapter. We appreciate it. Okay, back to the show. Here's what I mean. The biggest problem would fall in for all these scams and con men and doomers and pillars and libs and commies and media lunatics and is the problems don't stay local here's ben dominich on fox news talking about the sanctuary city issue i see this a lot sometimes with communications

people send me dms emails whatever i read it in the chat you know let them suffer if you want to vote for crap fine the problem is the crap doesn't stay in the fence line this is about sanctuary cities and you'll see exactly what i mean you may be admitted in a sanctuary city but there's no guarantee you're going to stay there criminal, check this out. People need to understand that these approaches that, you know, that invite these people into our cities, they don't just stay in those cities. They can go, you know, and travel freely, you know, once they get there. And so these types of policies that allow people who have done these horrible, heinous things that should put them behind bars to roam the streets at will, it's not like it just stays confined to New York City. It goes out

into other communities as well. Look, I'm glad that the administration has taken. these steps, but the fact that they have to do so at odds with the, with the Hockel regime, with the Mamdani regime, that's something that I think is just absolutely heinous. And I think that they should feel an obligation to protect their citizens. This is the problem, folks. You know, I know as a conservative as a Republican, a MAGA supporter, maybe even a Republican-leaning Democrat, who's for the first time voting for Donald Trump, sometimes the natural instinct is to want to just disconnect from it, but that you can't do that.

These problems do not, they almost never stay contained. As someone who lived and grew up in blue states, the problem is a lot of these places, California, Illinois, New York, Maryland, where I live for over a decade, is liberals will try in those states insane policies like defund the police, sanctuary cities, and they'll start up like almost an incubation lab, where they do a petri dish of policies and let the fungus grow. But the thing is, the fungus never stays contained.

It's like that movie when they find the space alien thing out of space. And then they put the thing and it breaches the thing and winds up coming back to Earth and the capsule takes over the whole Earth that's implied at the end. Like it never stays contained in the capsule. What was it called life or something like that? Was Ryan Reynolds in that life? That may come up later. So, because the 80s were awesome.

If you saw that, you know what I mean? They never stay contained. This is why we have to fight this stuff everywhere. Criminals can come in through sanctuary cities, and they can come down to Florida where we live with their, this is not a sanctuary state at all. And then you've got people running for office in this new, you know, sucker conman led Talafriko-led socialist Democrat party saying things

that I'm telling you we're going to put your life in danger. Folks, listen to me. Put your coffee down for a second and hear me out. the last year of my life was unbelievably enriching and rewarding. To go back and serve again was such a distinct pleasure and honor. And to be able to transform an enterprise that was in deep, deep trouble due to their own making was incredible. But if, and I don't like making the show about me, but when you walked in every morning, Cash and I would get the presidential daily brief, the president's daily brief, the president's daily brief.

every morning at 8 a.m. And it was in Cassius conference room, which is attached to the office. And it's a limited number of people. It was probably less than 10. Discounting the briefer. You read stuff that I don't, again, panic kills and I don't want to scare anyone.

But you read stuff that's just straight up frightening. And I don't mean like Michael Myers frightening. I mean like frightening like you have kids and you're like, gosh, if this breaks bad, like this could end poorly for all of us. When you've got people running for office right now, in the global environment we're in, with the Chinese Communist Party rapidly building out nuclear,

aircraft carrier capabilities, extensive drone warfare and cyber crime capabilities, cyber interdiction, kinetic warfare capabilities, robot armies, one of the worst things you can do right now. And you don't have to be, I don't want to hear about neo-cons or whatever. You know, it's not me. I actually ran for office against a lot of stuff,

so you can cut that crap right out. But it's probably a good idea to at least be prepared in case they try to attack us with either a nuclear weapon in the EMP or a cyber attack that would debilitate the entire country and the grid. What are you going to do if your phone and electricity and water supply goes down for 60 days

because the United States just was like defunding the military? I say that because the U.S. Senate primary, Yeah, there were a couple more left. In Massachusetts, liberal blue Massachusetts, crazy Ed Markey, who was one of the most radical far-left guys, won the primary against another lunatic Seth Moulton. But a guy who's a little more realistic on national security,

Markey's running on defunding the military. You think that's going to stay in Massachusetts? This guy be a U.S. senator taking a potentially pivotal vote if the Democrats take back the Senate about defunding our military in a time of unprecedented. I promise you. The threats are not like they were back in the 80s.

Check this out. Is Ed Markey? He's proud of this, by the way. Check this out. We need to slash the Pentagon budget. And we need to impeach Donald Trump now. This is what you're going to get if we lose. If there was ever an impetus for you to show up in the midterms.

And to bring 10 people with you, it's not good enough for you to show up. You've got to bring 10 people with you. 10, 10, and 10. Call 10 people, send 10 emails, make 10 social media posts, excuse me, about how to go out and vote. You've got to do it. I'm sorry, I don't give orders, but you've got to do it if you want to win. I saw a poll the other day that said a generic congressional ballot that the Republicans are actually not doing that bad.

We could actually hold the trifecta if you show up to vote. The trifecta. House, Senate, presidency, obviously is not going anywhere. We could hold the trifecta. It's not impossible. Is it likely? I don't know. I'm not going to get it to the likelihood.

We could hold it. If we lose, this is exactly what you're going to be looking at. You're going to be looking at a grave, a grave existential national security crisis. If you put the Democrats in charge of the military with Donald Trump and the presidency is the commander chief, at least in charge of military spending, Donald Trump will still be. President Trump will still be the CIC. You're also looking at a two-year impeachment spectacle, again, where nothing is going to get done. He's bragging about it, Markey.

All of this talk from the Democrats in Talafriko, Indiana Jones, Talafriko, just found a cracker barrel that they're going to hit affordability. They're going to do all this stuff for expenses and health care. They're just making all this up. They're going to go in there, and every day is going to be a new congressional hearing on. Donald Trump. You're going to see defund the police back. Woke 2.0 is even worse than Woke 1.0. And who are their tip of the spear?

Truth tellers and truth tellers and advocates. Hollywood. Sadly, a lot of people in the sports community, not all. Academia, they lie to these people. I saw this yesterday. Speaking of suckers and con men, I saw this video. Did you guys know this actor?

you may know them by face. It's not really a household name, but this was floating around next year or day. I'm sorry to put up a bunch of Hollywood people. This segment, it may not interest you, and that's okay. I don't, you know, not everything's going to interest everyone, but it didn't everyone every day. But it interests me.

It interests me because the way liberals and the liberal media are able to gaslight people is by using people with big voices and the initial influencer crowd before social media was Hollywood. That's why they have them, do commercials like, where old spice, famous actor Joey Begogonuts wears it. Well, I want to smell like him too. Whatever. They were the initial influencers. Hollywood people are some of the dumbest people you've ever met in your life. They act for a living because that's all. That's the

only value-added skill they have and some of them are very good at that. And yet despite being some of the richest, highest paid people in the world, in this rock we call Earth, somehow now, they're experts on free markets versus socialism, despite never leading from the front themselves. Here's a guy, David Harbor. This guy was in that Marvel movie. Was it Thunderbolts? I think he was Red Guardian or something.

Here, what is he in? Stranger Things? I don't watch Stranger Things, but good you know that. I did see Thunderbolts, however. This guy's in the movie. So I'm going to put up his, you know, let's do it in reverse, Justin. I put up his wealth first. So I asked Chat, GPT.

who knows how accurate it is, but apparently the guy's got a couple of, guys got a couple of bucks. I say, can he give me an estimate of Hollywood actor David Harbor from Thunderbolts? Well, and it's commonly listed at about $6 million in that worth. It makes them a 1% or right.

If it's true, it says though, chat GPT would estimate 10 to 15 million. I don't know, who cares? Maybe it's $1 million, 2 million. It's a lot worth a lot more than most people working their butts off for a living. So it's kind of weird that this guy's doing nothing to like donate his stuff to the guy.

government. He can. He can pay higher taxes and go live in a commune, a commune. But he probably doesn't do that as he lectures you. Check this out. You're either alone and you're kind of like a weird bachelor or spinster or whatever that I think is a throwback from, you know, the olden days. Or you like get a family, you get a house and you like sort of that's your castle and those are your people and it's like fuck the rest of the world or like we protect that what's our. There's a very sort of capitalist, you know, mindset to this ideology. And I think there's something about the communal living in America that I think we all kind of long for, not like a commune, but more like the idea of like, you know, friendship and common ground

and supporting each other and taking care of each other as opposed to just these family structures, the nuclear family structures that exist independent of everything else. Holy Moses, man. This guy wants Fat Barney. So share your own stuff, bro. Why are we always getting lectured by these idiots? Folks, pick the... You want a piece of advice?

You may not. I'm going to give it to you anyway. Unsolicited. Justin, listen, this is for you. You're a young man, too. Folks, pick the right heroes, man. Pick the right heroes. I know you guys laugh at Hollywood people

in general. You might, you know, whatever, you go to, I enjoy movies, too. You watch their acting. Whatever, who cares. These are not your heroes. You know who your heroes are? You know what mine is? My grandfather, Frank Bongino. A guy served patriotically and heroically in World War II, worked at the quartermaster's supply division drove trucks to the front lines full of fuel while the Germans were shooting at them with no headlights on at night on muddy roads. If they crash, they'd burn alive. And you know what? He never talked about it, ever. He didn't go pound his chest.

Oh, look at a hero I am. Matter of fact, he didn't want to talk about it at all. He didn't have nightmares about it the rest of his life. And nobody talked about it. Pick the right heroes. What the hell does this guy plays a hero in the Thunderbolts movie? This guy doesn't know Jack's squad about real life and Jack left town. Dude, that is such a good point.

Does someone in the chat pick up on that? Was that just the Justin original? Justin brought up that in Thunderbolts. He plays like the Soviet Union version of Captain America, Red Guard. The guy's a Soviet movement. Maybe that stuff infected his brain. That's a great point. Hey, David, just go donate your money.

Pick a charity. Donate it to the government. You think government's so great. Sell your house, donate it, do a land acknowledgement. Give it to the whatever, the Iroquois, whatever Indian tribe lived there before you. And then just go live in your commune and shut up. No one cares about. your stupid opinion? Super straight thing. That's good point. Here's another one. This happened yesterday.

Pick the right heroes. I can't stand this guy. He is probably the most annoying, condescending toolbox craftsman in Hollywood. Here's George Clooney. Put up his chat, GPT. What's George Clooney with? This guy's worth a lot more than Red Guardian Soviet commune guy. I doesn't want to live in one. George Clooney, according to celebrity net worth, who knows how accurate. But even if it's in the ballpark, it's worth about 500 milly, 500 milly. I saw a guy once who said in an article in over $140 million in that worth, nothing else matters. 500 million. Andy, 500 million.

500 million. Now, George, of course, could give it all away. Isn't there a website? I put it out of my ex account yesterday because Ro Khanna, that absolute tool, that liberal Soviet congressman from California, he's like,

we need to tax the hell out of these wealthy people. Rokana's worth like $300 million. So I sent a tweet back to him with instructions on how to give his money to the government. Send them to George Clooney too. He can give his money away, George Clooney. But he doesn't want to. Here's George Clooney,

who put this video up? I want to give a hat to it. Was it Vince Langman? Vince Langman. I saw this on Vince Langman's ex-account. Here's a video on a side-by-side of George Clooney on his fancy boat overseas with his wife doing his thing while lecturing you guys about the dangers of wealth creators and wealthy people. Just give it away. Do your land acknowledgement. Just give it away, George.

Join David Red Guardian. Go make a movie and give it all away. Check this out. I'll be through a moment in time where people in charge that people with the most money are telling us to fear one another. fear one another. But we know better than that time. Because history does teach us a lesson it, teaches us something. The first people that authoritarian try to shut down are not politicians.

They're journalists who ask questions. They're the artists who refuse simple answers that the filmmakers, writers, actively, and victims. Folks, please, I'm going to just go back to the beginning of the show about conmen and grifters and doomers. pick the right heroes in your life and you will never go wrong. Here's a list of who your heroes aren't. It's not me.

It's not my production crew. It's not some conservative content creator. It's your dad. It's your mom. It's that baseball coach as a kid that provided great life lessons and took a chance on you. It's not a content creator in the conservative space. I'm not your hero. Hollywood's not your hero.

none of that. Pick the right heroes. The reason we are getting a lot of people, and I say we, I don't mean you, but collectively in the United States, what tens of millions of people fall for liberal propaganda, con men on X and all these people, is because they're very charismatic, some of them looked apart. George Clooney's unquestionably a gifted public speaker, but you have to ask the question, like, are you living up yourself to what you're saying? If you're claiming that you're on the right side of truth and you can't wait to get in court to defend your outrageous theories, then factually asking the question, why are you doing everything you can to get the court case thrown out?

That's not what you said. If George Clooney and Red Guardian dude want to live in communes and think wealthy people are so awful and destructive, then donate your freaking money, bro. Nobody's stopping you. There's a website. You can donate your money to the government. Oh, that's ridiculous. Why is it ridiculous?

I get money to charity, so to many of you. No one has to force me to do it. Why do I do it? Because it's not ridiculous. And I think the things we give to and the people we give to will do good things with it. Why don't you give your money to the government you think is the solution everything? Go start a commune and living it yourself. Pick the right heroes.

This is a guy I thought had more common sense too. But can these Hollywood people? Folks, Can they just keep their sneakers and boots and feet out of their mouth? Just shut up. Sometimes not saying, you know, a very famous content creator in the space with a TV and radio show, who we all love, gave me the best advice ever earlier in my career. The person said to me, that's how do you think, the person said to me, no one ever got in trouble for shutting the, if you don't know, just shut up. So Ryan Reynolds, the Deadpool guy, who's actually a very, very.

talent that I he's funny like he is funny okay and he's a big capitalist this guy's worth a fortune too i didn't even look him up he's doing a promotion for this show about the 80s and the soviets in the united and he says this ridiculousity the 80s oh my gosh what an abomination what a horrifying time to be alive the 80s bro did you even grow aren't you Canadian he's he's Canadian right is Ryan Reynolds can i don't even think he's he may be a dual sit now but isn't he Canadian What the hell do you know about the 80s in the United States? You know why they say this? He is good.

Thank you. Thank you. They say this because who was in charge for the 80s? Yes. One of the greatest presidents in U.S. history, a Republican, Ronald Reagan. So all you ever hear about from liberal goofballs in Hollywood and liberal media people, the 80s were so awful. You doubt me, listen to you want to talk about stupid takes? You could have just shut up.

But you had to say this. Check this out. It's interesting about when you get far enough away from a time period that's quite distinct. I think there's always a lovely feeling associated with. It's almost like you pave over all the trauma with like puppy dogs and ice cream. And the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a fucking miss. And like, you know, people forget that it was like that was a tremendous stride,

sociopolitical tensions everywhere. You know, we're still like pretty fresh off like a Cuban missile crisis, which is only like, what, 15, 20 years before. So, you know, it's a, it's a tumultuous. But you look back at it now and you're like, oh, yeah, top gun, cocaine. Like, no, it was like a really scary. So I think, you know, I think when you look back at 2026 and this era, I think you're going to like pick on the big ticket items that don't really,

didn't really leave the footprint culturally that you would think it would. I don't know. I wonder what it's going to be. It's going to be like, oh, the COVID era or something. I have no idea. No, you're probably right. It'll be rose-colored glasses. Of course.

We are living in the friggin' salad days right now. We just don't know it. Folks, I'm going to tell you some of all the dopey Hollywood actor crap, I never expected that from this guy. Then they have like mobile companies and stuff. Like you would think a free markets guy who engages in capitalism and commerce every single day would like learn not to say stupid stuff. The 80s were terrible. The chat, yeah, folks, this is like, I know we've scrapped the five monthly limit. If there's not a monthly in the chat for at least 10 or 15.

teen mutleys than being that we scrapped the limit the mutley's meaningless this is one of the dumbest takes i've ever heard pick the right heroes the 1980s sucked did you even live in the 1980s i'm two years older than this guy i was a young man in the 1980s a very young kid i was a teenager i was born in 1974 i was six when the 80s started the 80s were the miracle on ice i don't even like the mets no you see my here's my twitter post this dude doesn't know jack about the 1980s in America and Jack left down, meaning he doesn't know. It was an incredible time to be alive. Think about this. He man, G.I. Joe, Ronald Reagan, crushing the Soviets, the miracle on ice in the beginning of the 80s, the Berlin Wall and communism falling at the end of the 80s.

Explosive GDP growth under Ronald Reagan, four, five, and six percent. We haven't seen those numbers again, absent the post-COVID rebound, which is an anomaly because we shut the government down and everything else, you haven't seen numbers like that in forever. Justin, do you remember the 80s? No, okay. But you do know about hair bands, right? You had hair bands in the 80s. Now, we laugh about it now. I stole my thunder. Damn it. Well, you didn't because nobody heard you. So I'll just pretend you didn't say that. You had hair bands, which we laugh now. They were a lot of fun at the time. Remember Motley Crew? Remember, poison? Remember, you can laugh all you want. People still show up to that guy's concerts. They still show up. Remember, Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Dark? Empire Strikes,

of course they got to throw that in there. The Star Wars crew are there. You better throw it. Empire was great. It was one of the few where the sequels better than you. You're correct. Better than the original. The 80s were awesome. There was no rage farming on social media. We still drank out of hoses that now like the BPA X chemical is going to kill you.

We're all going to die. Okay. No one talked about that. See, he's like, listen, I wasn't born until 2020. And I drank out of a hose too. Okay. Don't drink out of a hose. I'm not down.

I'm just telling nobody. cared back then. Here's another one. Here's another one. Folks, these kids now, and listen, my kids do it too, so I'm throwing them under the bus too. Every kid walks around with like a

500 out Stanley water bottle now. I used to go out in the summer in New York City where it gets hot in the asphalt jungle, like really hot. You would go out with your baseball glove and this, you know what a sponge ball is? It's like a baseball thing, but it's like a hard sponge. So if you get hit, you don't, That was basically, we would play Spongeball from 8 in the morning to like 10 o'clock at night.

I don't even remember where I drank water. Now it's like, here's an electrolyte infused hydrogen water container with the Stanley. You're going to need 800 ounces to survive. I guess we were all like freaking camels growing up with humps. I don't remember drinking anything ever. I'm sure I did because I'm still here. Maybe I was like beef jerky. That was the 80s.

I'm not even a Mets fan. Producer Jim, this is Fear. I know. This is my anti-cancer water now. I don't even, listen, I just told you, throwing myself under the bus. Everything's like a lecture light and fuel.

I love these guys. They're bad. They're like, the 80s were amazing. I don't even like the Mets. Producer Jim, this is for you. The 86 Mets happened in the 80s. It was like the era of, like, where everything was,

everything was new and cool. and fresh and you went to school. You can't even say cool anymore. You sound like an old boom or whatever. 80s. Shut up, Ryan Reynolds. You know what you're talking about. You didn't even, you're Canadian.

I'm just telling you. You don't know what it was like to grow up in 1980s America. Folks, anyone in the chat thinks the 80s sucked? Anyone? Because I certainly don't. All right, I told you the show was always like, edutainment, hat-tip BDP, right? Educational entertainment.

And yes, there's, really not anything super data-based or informed in that other than me getting ticked off about this idiot saying the 80s suck. The 80s were awesome, and I'm really tired of hearing stupid stuff like this from people want to crap on the Reagan years. That was the morning in America years. That's when Reagan won 49 states in re-election. No one's ever going to do that again.

He would have won Minnesota, too. He gave it to Mondale just because he felt bad. Asked the Secret Service guys. Reagan didn't even want to travel to Minnesota because he felt bad for Mondale. Let's give him one state. I saw this yesterday. You know, I like highlighting other creators because, folks, my job here as an activist first and a content creator second is not to try to monopolize the entire audience.

There are a lot of good creators out there doing good work. And it's my obligation as one of the guys who's been in this business the longest and with a good, decent audience, thanks to you, is to highlight other creators. I played this clip yesterday, and I should have done a little more educating after the entertainment portion of it. There's this blue-haired lady that gets into it with a good commentator at this guy, Caleb Hammer, who does some good videos. They're really informative.

And he gets into it with this blue-haired lady, who, again, appears to be like a conman, like just doesn't know anything. She's saying things with no factual basis because, I don't know, she has blue hair or whatever. So she mentions how the United States, you know, work. cutting all these snap benefits and food social welfare programs. Ladies and gentlemen, this is all crap. This is all, man, I'm going to show you some data to back it up a second.

I just want to play this clip again. Because, again, pick the right heroes. And if they have blue or green hair, they're probably not the right heroes. Check this out. Patriotic? With blue hair, you think I'm patriotic? You can still be patriotic and be wrong about economics. Why would I be patriotic when we're spending more money on bombs than we are for, like, social justice?

Or like social programs. We spend 50% of the federal spending on social programs. Like what? Social programs, Medicare, Medicaid, mandatory spending, snap benefits, veteran benefits. You mean the SNAP benefits that people just got taken away from them? You think everyone just got taken off SNAP? Most people did. You think the majority just got taken off of that?

Our military spending is 10 to 20%. And the bombs you're freaking out about? 10 to 20%. It's egregious. We spent 50% on social programs. I'm a military kid and I can tell you that shit is not needed. Girl, you literally just got the information that you were just wrong and yet you're still doubling down. Oh, boy.

I love when people have no idea what they do. And then they're just not patriotic. It's like, dude, you're literally not a contributor. You should be the most patriotic person. You contribute nothing. I mean... You contribute literally nothing. You've only been a taker.

And yet you're the one that doesn't like the country. Ladies and gentlemen, please, please, in the name of all that's wholly picked the right heroes, I'm going to add to the list of not heroes. Notice I didn't say anti-heroes. Because anti-heroes can be kind of cool. The Punisher was kind of an anti-hero if you like comic books. You know, sometimes the anti-hero is like just a dude who's P-Oed with an edge. Okay, I'm not talking about them.

I'm talking about the not heroes, like the villains. If they have blue or green hair and they're spouting a bunch of liberal talking points, they're probably conning you. Con men, liberal media people, doomers, pillars, communist, Islamo fanatics, Hollywood people, you know, faux academics with stupid critical race theory stuff, pick the right heroes and you'll never go wrong. This woman's not it. She doesn't even know anything. So I saw this article conveniently after the show yesterday. I would have put it in yesterday. And that's why I played this thing. Again, the Wall Street Journal.

Really? We're ripping people callously off food stamps. Guys, everybody's starving. They're all dying. The world. Everyone's going to die, folks. We just know food stamps out there. Really? They're just taking it. They're just taking it. Not to mention like a lot of people who can work for a living and don't want to get off their ass and go to work, who are taking SNAP benefits. And no one wants to say that. I'll say it. Go to work if you can work. Go to work.

Wall Street Journal notes, here's some data for you. Food stamp enrollment fell to $36.6 million from $42.3 million between May 25 and 26, according to the Department of Agriculture data. Wow. Sounds like she's right, Dan. This is what a horror show. Part two. Enrollment has returned to pre-pandexamination.

levels, though it's still higher as a share of the population, 10%, than it was just two decades ago. Again, folks, facts kind of matter if they have blue or green hair. They've acted in a Hollywood movie. They're spouting off about critical race theory or they tell you to go live in a commune. You should probably scrap them and pick a new hero. Or if they wear a suit jacket to cracker barrel and look like freaking Indiana Jones on an archaeological excursion looking for the Ten Commandments in radio.

of the Lost Dark, you should probably pick a new hero. If you're running in the state of Texas on a god's a woman and their six genders, look at this guy. He doesn't even know what to do. He's like, look at that. A menu. Make sure you left. Folks, listen to me, man.

I ran for office. You have no idea how many ads people wanted me to make that were so fake and phony. One of them was like, I need you to do this with all this. I'm like, no, that's just fake. Like I wouldn't do that in real life. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm sorry.

Trump, however. Trump, however, had the best idea ever yesterday. Folks, if we can get this moving, Donald Trump was speaking yesterday and just threw this out there. And I'm telling you if we can move the Overton window on this topic and make sure that this gets moving in hopefully a Republican Congress either now or in the future, it'll change the whole country. I got that. And a reality check, I told you with the AI tech bros, like a really bad idea is to walk on to. college campuses and crap all over the students and tell them how AI is not going to need them. Who the hell?

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Here's what I was talking about. President Trump was speaking yesterday. And he is so laser focused on the Learing Center. and the corruption of all this federal government money floating into a thousand different food programs, assistance programs. Ladies and gentlemen, tens of millions of people at a time are on these programs who can go to work and don't want to or are fraudulently claiming an income status they don't have, oh, I'm really poor and they're really not claiming all their income. A lot of this stuff is a scam. There are some people that people have outlived some benefits. There's some kids who have parents have passed

There's some people who genuinely can't work for reasons. We've always been a kind and generous society. But the amount of fraud in these programs is ridiculous. President Trump said this yesterday, and I applaud him and he should stick with this. These social welfare programs, they're no business of the federal government. They shouldn't be anymore. We've seen the scam. We've seen the scandals of Minnesota, California and elsewhere.

Hand it back to the states. The states want to become incubators of social welfare in blue states while red states tighten up and only get benefits to people who need them. Let's try that out. Check this out. It's unbelievable. The fraud is unbelievable. And I think we have to give that back to the states, by the way.

We have to give things like the learning center, the leering, right? The leering centers. The federal government runs this stuff. We should be running our military and running a couple. But the states have to run all of that stuff. And you'll cut it down by 75%. And it'll be run better. But the states have to be giving it back, just like we gave back education.

You know, I said to you the other day that the messaging on the Republican side has gotten geometrically better by exponential growth in messaging capability on the Republican side. We were so stale in the past. We just didn't know what we were doing collectively as a movement. I attribute a lot of that to Donald Trump saying things in the past that were verboten. You were not allowed to say that in the past. God forbid. Why?

The Democrats would accuse you of throwing grandma off. a cliff, you know, stealing food out of baby's mouth. Donald Trump's like, one, that's not true. Two, you guys are morons. Three, there's fraud. And I'm not going to listen to your crap anymore. And you're not going to dictate where the story goes. I'm going to tell the story, not a story. He is 100% correct. You want to clean up this massive crisis in government spending and welfare abuse across the country. emulate the great Ronald Reagan in the 80s who did the same thing Trump is doing. He spoke right to the problem. The most dangerous words in the English. language. I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Trump does the exact same thing.

Well, that didn't work for Ronald Reagan. No, no, you're right. It was terrible. He only won 49 states in re-election and had the greatest eight-year run of an economy we saw in modern American history. It was really terrible. You remember Reagan calling out welfare queens and also the media was like, and we didn't even have Fox News back then to fight back or talk radio. Remember Reagan calling out welfare queens? And the liberal media was like, oh my gosh, what a horrible racist this guy is. There was no evidence of any of that attributed to race at all. He was talking about people taking advantage of the system. And it worked so poorly for Reagan, he only won 49 out of 50 states in re-election and is known as one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history.

Folks, the messaging is shifted because Donald Trump brings up what used to be uncomfortable topics because the right was scared. Not you, but they were scared. You can't say turn benefits back to the state. They'll accuse you of stealing food from baby's mouth. Hey, newsflash, they're going to accuse you because they're con men of doing it anyway. Just like that idiot at Ross story accused me of failing a background check despite the fact that he made up the whole story. They just make this stuff up. However, on the messaging front, we have gotten, we've gotten really good at this. There are memers out there who are doing amazing work. You see people like Chung in the White House, and Scovino and others in that messaging team in the White House,

they just knock it out of the park every single time because they go where Republicans wouldn't go in the past. But thankfully, President Trump has taken a bull on the horns on the technology race with China. We are not doing great. And I say we as a collective society, Democrats, Republicans, and everyone. We are not doing a great job talking to the next generation about critical issues like AI.

We're just not. I can't say this enough. If you are someone in the AI space or tech space and you're out there on a college campus at some commencement speech telling students and their parents, you better get on board. This train's going to run you down. Like here's a hint. You're doing it wrong. Now, I would say at least you're being honest if, in fact, that was accurate, that there's

widespread employment loss due to AI. I always bring the receipts. This is the receipt show. I hope you learn something here every day. I learn it too as I hear about it. This was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It's cited from an article somewhere else. It was marginal revolution.

But it's called AI and employment. Colon, so far, so good. Keep that up there. I thought it was terrible. I thought the AI Titan tech bros told everybody, everyone's going to lose their job. I thought the employment situation was dank and terrible. Why would you say that?

So the Census Bureau added a couple of, questions about AI to its business trends. Are you guys using AI out there? And you can have, you can see the numbers here. Turns out that some companies are using it. Some companies are using it a lot. Some reported no change. But the employment numbers are the ones that are really unbelievable. Yeah, there are a couple people scored out to the next one. There are a couple people in the employment space that are shedding some jobs. But overall, almost all firms report no change. And those reporting change in the their employment status due to AI, it's about evenly divided between increasing and decreasing

employment. In other words, there's almost no overall change at all. Some people are hiring more due to AI because they have more money to spend because they're getting more productive and can use humans for human tasks. This messaging war in the future, ladies and gentlemen, is critical, critical. We cannot lose sight of this stuff. If you're going to go out and scare the hell out of the next generation of kids just because what? You want to flex in front of them about how important and rich you are? You're doing it wrong. Don't do it.

Friends don't let friends say stupid to our kids, okay? And don't tell them the 80s sucked either, you morons. The 80s were awesome. I love the 80s. Damn, man, I wish sometimes I go back and live my life again playing wiffle ball on the corner in the 80s, you know, not worrying about, you know, the world being exploded by an EMP attack and the grid getting shut down. We beat the Soviets and Red Guardian in the 80s.

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I may keep this going even longer because I really enjoy it. So the comment of the day today is Big Wop 967. These names are getting better by the day. Eddie Wuffnuts, though, takes the cake. We love Eddie Wuff. All right, get to the comment of the day. Eddie Wuff Nuts, that's one of my favorites. If the 80s were so bad, then why do artists try to reboot the 80s culture now?

Yes, exactly. If the 80s are so terrible, how come all the stuff in the 80s you see artists like reminiscing about the 80s? They can just let it go. You see movies about it? It wasn't, is it stranger things like about the 80s? I don't watch the show, but everything is about the 80s. Even that movie with Anne Hathaway,

you know, crazy pro-abortion lady we played yesterday, the end of Oak Street, I think it's about like the 80s or something. The Halcyon days. Folks, don't miss Sean Faris' show. He's been kicking butt and taking names. 1 p.m. Eastern every single day. Rumble.com slash Sean with an H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.

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